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by jghn 4mo ago
> it was mostly Democrats who were saying they weren’t going to take the vaccine Sadly, no. I live in one of the bluest corners of the US. A constant discussion was when the jab would come available so that we could get it. I knew no one
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by jghn 4mo ago
The problem with this thinking on something like vaccines is that vaccines literally rely on a certain percentage of the population having received the vaccine. It's not actually possible to allow a personal choice policy if you want a
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by jghn 4mo ago
However, they already got their headline. While I saw the original policy covered heavily in conservative news sources, I've not seen this retraction covered at all. Thus the base believes that the military is no longer "woke&quot
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by jghn 4mo ago
The worst case scenario is that we're at a plateau and LLMs max out around here. And it'd stand to reason that if that happens we'd see local models catch up at least to some extent. Compared to 5 years ago, that's a pre
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by jghn 4mo ago
I came very close to pulling the trigger on an M5 Air the other night to replace my venerable M1 Air. Wound up deciding I'd wait until M6. Doh!
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by jghn 4mo ago
For sure. Though at that point I think it's fine by the standard I was flagging. They invested a ton of time & money into vetting you, so even if it was absurd it at least required them to have skin in the game. So I wasn't ev
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by jghn 4mo ago
Or, if they're anything like me, even if I hadn't yet moved along they'd find that for them my price has gone up in the interim time period.
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by jghn 4mo ago
The problem is that way too many people assume they're in the latter group, when the proportions are very much the other direction
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by jghn 4mo ago
A policy I started to adhere to a while back was never take a job somewhere that doesn't invest at least as much time & energy into interviewing you than you are with them. If they expect me to put in a bunch of effort and they&#x2
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by jghn 4mo ago
People understand that memories get foggy over time. Well, at least most people will. As an interviewer I allow for a sliding scale of inability to drill in on details based on how much time elapsed. Also, you'll find that people are t
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by jghn 4mo ago
I've used pseudo-em dashes going back to the 90s. In that I'll use hyphen (-) a lot. So for me, an actual em dash would be a tell, but if I just have a normal hyper in between two thoughts, it's not. And yes, I agree that mos
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by jghn 4mo ago
Yeah see that makes a lot more sense. If one doesn't like the writing style or content, just don't read it. The reflexive "this is AI slop!" complaints have themselves become a caricature. If something was written by AI
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by jghn 4mo ago
This reply was AI written
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by jghn 4mo ago
I mean I get it. It bugs me too. And yes, obviously most of the text that people point at as being AI slop is in fact AI slop. At the same time, you also have the other set of asshats that just go respond with things like "AI slop!&quo
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by jghn 4mo ago
Just like em-dashes, some people have always done these though. Why are they penalized with immediate AI slop witch hunts? The LLMs didn't come up with these tics out of thin air.
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by jghn 4mo ago
One thing I think that helps is that for anything more worthwhile than message board posts like this I use Claude to review my text, make suggestions, and iterate on structure with me. But I'm the one writing the bulk of the text. I&#x
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by jghn 4mo ago
I often run my writing through scans for AI tells. The number of things it flags that are just my own personal vocal tics, that I've had for 40+ years, is amazing. In other words, correlation != causation
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by jghn 4mo ago
I mean from a bigger picture view. I'm much more likely to think in broader context of what impact a decision would have to the business at large. And my view of that is much more accurate than it used to be, without the exaggerated se
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by jghn 4mo ago
As an engineer, this realization was eye opening for me and had a massive impact to my approach. So few of those things that we're trained to approach with care and caution *really* matter at the end of the day. Sure, my engineering se
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by jghn 4mo ago
It did! Once I confirmed it was real I wound up bouncing between the two. Such a surreal experience
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by jghn 4mo ago
I was in the car listening to Howard Stern. Someone called in about it. They treated it as a joke at first. As it started playing out they realized that not only was it real but it was more than just a simple accident. THat's when I fl
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by jghn 4mo ago
There is still no chance that my first reaction to a random stranger asking me to do work for them is "sure", without building some sort of connection. Granted, that means I could still get phished via a coding exercise, but it wo
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by jghn 4mo ago
I can not imagine a situation where some random person messages me on linkedin asking me to solve a coding challenge, and I do anything other than block them.
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by jghn 4mo ago
Also if one expands it to the Americas more broadly it goes back pretty far. Earlier this year on a trip to Central America I stayed in a home that dated to the mid-16th century. Still not as impressive as what Europe has, but was neat!
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by jghn 4mo ago
Also, when the topic of rent control, sorry, rent stabilization, comes up here in the Boston area now people won't allow for inflation adjustments. I'd be okay with a scheme that allowed for automatic inflation adjustment plus som
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by jghn 4mo ago
I realized after I posted that it didn't quite capture what I meant. For instance if I'm able to do a more complex piece of work all at once in about the same amount of time as it'd previously take me to do a simpler piece of
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by jghn 4mo ago
This is it exactly. Show me a dev who could competently function as a PM in their industry, and I'll show you a dev who will succeed in the new world. [0] [0] I am not talking about low level PMs who just fill in scrum points and gener
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by jghn 4mo ago
I don't disagree with you, but this misses my point entirely. I was using "write code" as shorthand for the entire package. What I am referring to is someone with meaningful knowledge outside of software engineering who can a
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by jghn 4mo ago
One thing the AI tools have taught me is that it hasn't been my personal bottleneck for at least a very long time. It's made that part faster for me, and that allows me to take bigger bites at the apple each iteration, but it&#x27
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by jghn 4mo ago
What you're describing is an effect that has always existed. It became clear to me a few decades ago earlier in my career that if a dev's only real skill was "write code" that they were severely limited compared to peopl

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